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1001 albums to listen to before you die
De_El:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 02 Nov 2009, 18:19 ---Why are all of these "x albums that are awesome" lists exclusively pop music without mentioning it? I went through a good portion of the list before I realized there wasn't going to be anything but pop music.
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It depends on how you understand the term "album," I think. Since the 70s, when album-oriented rock music became popular, the idea of an "album" has become the domain of various kinds of popular music.
I'm probably wrong though. Give me an example of album-oriented art music, I'm curious now.
sarcasticsmoothie:
This forum needs to steal Facebook's "like" button for Spluff's post.
If the distinction is anything like that of art movies, then he's talking about "independent" albums made outside of a big label or even without a label at all.
You can't expect to see much in the way of true "art" music in a list like this though. Ideally, a list will have important and exemplary albums across multiple genres, most of which will be those on a (relatively) major label. "Art" music is a bit too in-depth and usually not as accessible to an outsider of a genre for a list like this.
a pack of wolves:
No, he must be using a very different distinction since this falls into the pop category (as you can guess, that wasn't released by a major).
Bastardous Bassist:
I am definitely using a different definition of art music. Commonly, it refers to what lots of people call "classical music," or slightly more accurately "concert music." It's slightly difficult to explain with words, especially since I've not really got much time right now.
--- Quote from: De_El on 02 Nov 2009, 19:25 ---It depends on how you understand the term "album," I think. Since the 70s, when album-oriented rock music became popular, the idea of an "album" has become the domain of various kinds of popular music.
I'm probably wrong though. Give me an example of album-oriented art music, I'm curious now.
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I guess it really does, because I'm not quite sure about how an "album" would work out. Would one consider it a group of songs intended to be released on a record together? If so, then I would definitely have to think about art music that would fit the album form. If you want to consider it a group of music intended to be listened to together, then I would say a symphony or a song cycle could probably be considered "albums."
--- Quote from: Spluff on 02 Nov 2009, 19:12 ---One is enjoyable to listen to, one is enjoyable to talk about listening to.
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Because I hate listening to art music.
De_El:
True! They could, by that criterion, be considered "albums," but symphonies aren't albums, and no one really calls them that. It's pure nomenclature.
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